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Table of Contents
Voluntary Associations
This is the main page for organizing the Fall 2011/Winter 2012 CSCI403: Automatically Gathering Inscriptions from Multiple Online Sources
- David Margolies, Winter 2012 Lead Developer
- Riley Jordan, Fall 2011 Lead Developer
Motivation
Many DBs with inscriptions, but they're not centralized and easily searchable
Goals
- Automatically collect data from multiple online sources
- Create a DB for the inscriptions
- Create an interface to make data easily editable, exportable
Specifications
Collegium Project Proposal - a vision for the project
Tentative Schedule
Week 1: Jan 9
- Familiarize yourself with project
- Read the project proposal (under Specifications)
- Mostly for motivation and problem; Loose description of project
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- Click Search under Epigraphic Text Database
- Click Simple-search
- Enter “collegi” under “String 1” in part D
- You'll get all inscriptions that contain “collegi”
Week 2: Jan 17
- Learn Python: (First 4-5 weeks of CSCI 111 - I/O, basic assignments, arithmetic, using OO, for loops, if statements, conditionals, string operations)
Week 3: Jan 24
- Learn Python (Next
Resources
Corpora
Examples
Notes
- Search in Heidelberg DB for “collegi”
- Search in Clauss DB for “societ”
Extension Ideas
- Can we automatically classify any of the inscriptions with their trades, deities, types of association?
- Can we automatically generate any of the drop down lists?